Garret D. Wall

Garret Dorset Wall (10 March 1783-22 November 1850) was a US Senator from New Jersey (D) from 4 March 1835 to 3 March 1841 (succeeding Theodore Frelinghuysen and preceding Jacob W. Miller).

Biography
Garret Dorset Wall was born in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey in 1783, and he became an attorney in 1804 and a counselor in 1807, practicing in Burlington Township. He commanded a volunteer regiment from Trenton during the War of 1812, and he served as clerk of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1812 to 1817 and as Quartermaster General of New Jersey from 1815 to 1837. In 1829, he was elected Governor, but he declined to serve, although he went on to serve as a Democratic US Senator from 1835 to 1841. He failed to win reelection, and he served on the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals from 1848 until his death in 1850.